My dad was working abroad, in Iraq, and he was a doctor. We used to go and visit him, in Baghdad, off and on. For the first ten years of my life, we used to go backwards and forwards to Baghdad, so that was quite amazing. I spent a lot of time traveling around the Middle East.

He was also the film's second unit director which included directing aerial shots and battle scenes. He played an abusive boyfriend in the music video for Neneh Cherry's "Woman". One of his earliest feature film appearances was alongside Sacha Baron Cohen in The Jolly Boys' Last Stand.

He is popularly known for playing through performance capture to animate and voice computer-generated characters: Gollum in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003) and the Hobbit prequels (2012–2014) King Kong in the eponymous 2005 film Caesar in Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) and Captain Haddock in Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin (2011). Andrew Clement "Andy" Serkis (born 20 April 1964) is an English film actor director and author.